SB 106

Abstract

Retired circuit and district court judges underrecall; evaluation; qualification by the Senate Committee on theJudiciary and the House Committee for Courts of Justice. Requiresthat retired district court judges sitting as substitutes be foundqualified every three years by the Senate Committee on the Judiciaryand House Committee for Courts of Justice instead of authorized bythe Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The bill alsorequires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Courtof Virginia to prepare and distribute an evaluation form for eachcircuit and district court retired judge who has requested to becalled upon to sit in recall during his final year of the three-year period following qualification. The bill further requires that theOffice of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginiaannually prepare and transmit a report including such evaluationsconducted that year to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary andthe House Committee for Courts of Justice by the first day of thenext regular session of the General Assembly.